"Q: It must have been pretty nerve-racking having such a large animal swim up to you.
A: It was amazing. I mean, I have to tell you there were days when I was at the bottom at 70 feet, and here comes this bus swimming down. I’m standing on the bottom, and as it comes down, I get on my knees, lean over backwards—my scuba tank is now digging into the sand. And of course their eyes are on the side of their heads, so it had to turn and look at me. It came within inches. Here’s this softball-size whale eye looking at me. But then it stops—stops on a dime. It’s just hovering there, and literally one flick of its tail, and it would have crushed me like a bug. But it doesn’t. It was just highly curious." - Christopher Sacca
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I stayed in the Extended Stay America in Beaverton for a couple of weeks in 2001...then I got an apartment in Portland. - Bren
I live here too! Tons of geeks, and the tech scene in the Portland area is amazing. I love it! :-) I run into Ward occasionally, but I've still never met Alex. Make sure he comes to Ignite Portland 4 in November! :-) - Josh Bancroft
Hmmm, seems like I need to move to Beaverton, Oregon myself ;-) - Bora Zivkovic
I live in Hillsboro, which butts up against Beaverton. Hillsboro is better. Ha! ;) Brad Fitzpatrick who created LiveJournal did so from Hillsboro. I believe his parents still live here. - Dawn
Yeah, I work in Hillsboro and so does my fiance (she teaches 3rd grade for the Hillsboro public school system). Hillsboro and Beaverton both seem about the same to me. Still haven't found a good Italian place in either town though. However, not very interested in driving into Portland to find one. :) - Alex Scoble CISSP
Have you tried that Italian restaurant at Orenco? I don't remember the name of it and haven't been there in a couple of years, but it used to be pretty good. I prefer Hillsboro because it's more compact and the city cares more about parks and roads, including the landscaping of roads. Hillsboro is prettier, IMO. Of course, more than half of it is less than ten years old, so most of it is very new and still looks fresh. - Dawn
Depends on which part of Hillsboro, downtown isn't very pretty. I live near Aloha so there's lots of trees in my neighborhood. In fact that's pretty much all I see out my backyard. I'll have to give that place a try. I think I know which one it is. It's across the way from Swagath, right? - Alex Scoble CISSP
Yep, across from Swagath, which used to be another Indian place that was actually a lot better, IMO. Have you seen downtown lately? They redid the theater there and added a coffee bar/bistro. It's very nice. The city is stepping up efforts to revitalize downtown. I'm hoping to put my business there, where the WellsFargo used to be. It's a block from the MAX train, so employess could come in from all over. - Dawn
I haven't seen that part of downtown, apparently. But I have seen some efforts to revitalize it. We are getting married at the Hillsboro Cultural Arts Center on 12/09. They did a nice job of renovating that building. And they are tearing down some of the schools and have build 3 new ones in the area. My fiance worked at Peter Boscow Elementary last year but is moving to McKinney this year as PB was closed at end of last term. - Alex Scoble CISSP
Yep, the Cultural Arts Center is very nice. Congrats to you and your fiance on your coming marriage and her new job. I hope she enjoys the new school! - Dawn
Apologies to the Hillsboro/Beaverton fans, but if you're going to live in the area, do yourself a favor and live in Portland! :) - Patrick Lightbody
That's great, but then you have to deal with higher crime, more traffic, higher taxes. You can have it. - Alex Scoble CISSP
If it weren't for Voodoo Donuts and Kell's I'd have scant reason to go there. :) - Alex Scoble CISSP
Beaverton, OR is nice. My wife and I are glad we settled here. It's a nice change from the cookie-cutter neighborhood we left in Chandler AZ. - Kevin Johnson
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@dwan - do you mean the Merchant of Venice at Orenco? I had the worst possible meal there - it used to be pretty good in its early days from what I hear, but right now, I tell people to stay very far away from it - Frederic
Small world but I wouldn't want to paint it - Steven Wright - Dave Hussein Martin
Nonna Emilia's near 170th an TV Hwy isn't bad for italian. nothing special, but pretty inexpensive, and MASSIVE portions. But you're right. I can't think of a really good Italian place in the area. - Josh Bancroft
Yeah, I have two criteria for what makes a good Italian place. Good gnocchi in gorgonzola creme sauce is 1. Good bruschetta (pronounced bruh-skeh-tuh for the unitiated...NOT bruh-sheh-tuh..."ch" is similar to "k" sound in Italian...you wouldn't pronounce chianti as shee-ahn-tee) is the other. - Alex Scoble CISSP
Some chichi places do bruschetta as half pieces of cherry tomatoes on crusty bread. Nothing as annoying as paying $8 for bruschetta like that...It has no flavor. Best way to do bruschetta is to chop up tomato and lots of basil together. Put oil and garlic rubbed onto toasted pieces of baguette (sourdough for extra flavor) and add a nice mound of the tomato and basil mixture. - Alex Scoble CISSP
if you want good Italian, you pretty much have to go downtown - Nonna Emilia is ok, but indeed nothing special (even though it tends to be packed). In Portland itself, we really like Iorio (http://www.ioriorestaurant.com...) and Fratelli (http://www.fratellicucina.com/) has some good stuff on the menu as well. - Frederic
An article about how to best compensate development teams -- and other teams for that matter -- when "merit pay" causes negative consequences. - Brian "Bex" Huff
Do you tweet on Twitter? Or network on Ning?
A new and growing array of tongue-twisting tools and technologies is available to help people easily interact and share information online.
While it may be tempting to avoid these obscurely named technologies, there's good reason for small businesses to learn what they are and how to use them: So-called social media can help small firms to better connect with and market themselves to consumers and others in their industries. And they're often free. - Robert Seidman
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Try Twittelator - or Hahlo (much better). - l0ckergn0me
I can borrow yours for several months then show you how to do that. - Russellreno
They should show up with an orangey-brown tint in your list. - Jim Christian
I believe you just have to scroll down and look for them (they're a different color). I preferred the Twitter Mobile jailbreak version, which will be back soon. - Graham English
So "scroll down and look for brown" is the only way? - Bill Miranda
Hmm seems the best advice they could have given (since they more or less say turn off the new features to save battery life) is to stick with the Iphone 1.0.... havent had time to use the Iphone 3G in the working day but its going to be annoying if I run out of battery life before I get home at its end.... i dont mind recharging it each night but expect a days worth of usage out of it.. - David W
glad I'm sticking with iPhone 2G :-)....battery life on mine is great. - Rob Bushway
I too am sticking with the iPhone 2G for now, but I'm noticing much less battery life than before the firmware update. I'm using it more, sure, but there's a lot more things hitting the net and using power. It's not just the 3G radio. - Bill Miranda
Offering tips why not release it without the issue in the first place!! - Joe Dawson
this is ridiculous my phone needs to be charged halfway through the day - Nick O'Neill
Welcome early guinea pigs! This thing reminds me of my first bluetooth PDA! With the first Windows CE! Pay to play, not to use! Expensive brick! I hope iPhone is not a total brick, I would feel bad for early adopters! The best part of it that I licked, is when the battery ran out of juice you lost all your data! The developer must have been a genius! lmao - Igor The Troll
This happens with many types of phones... what usually ends up happening is the manufacturer releases newer software with tweaks to the power management features of the device... but don't forget, they're limited by the hardware. - David
Interesting, an (unofficial) native Reader iPhone app. Will try it out. - Mihai Parparita
t's quite basic, in that all you can see is your reading list,
starred items, and notes (there is no way to pick between your
folders, subscriptions or friends). It seems to be geared towards
offline access, in that it will cache images from posts and the entire
destination page (with CSS, etc) for your starred items and notes. That
generally makes sense, since it's a strength of a native app (though
now that the iPhone browser supports HTML 5 offline storage, this could
be done in a web app too). - Mihai Parparita
Not sure it's worth the $10 at this stage, but it's nice that others
are starting to do this work for us :) - Mihai Parparita
I should probably re-title this: "How to wipe your iPhone to factory settings and still have only 1.1.4 in 10 easy steps!" - Kevin Fox
I'm upgraded to iTunes 7.7 and iPhone 2.0, but don't see the app store. - Amir Gharaat
Never mind. Just realized you have to enable the Apps menu from Preferences. - Amir Gharaat
Got 7.7, but when I click "Check for Update" under the iPhone version tab, I get "This version of the iPhone software (1.1.4) is the latest version." - Stephen Mack
"Aside from The Mad Ballmer it seems all my old targets have gone to ground. You hardly hear a peep out of Larry Ellison these days, though Oracle's appetite for acquisition hasn't waned. Darl McBride seems to have crawled back under a rock, with only SCO's delusions of patent grandeur to keep him warm. Steve Jobs is hanging tough, of course, but did you see how scrawny he looked at the last keynote? It seems almost unfair to pick on him in his wizened state. And isn't Carly Fiorina on The View with Whoopi Goldberg and that ditzy blonde chick?" - Ontario Emperor
